Andreas Ramos wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy E. Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Andreas Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Web Consultants List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 12:48 AM
> Subject: Re: WC:>: Portals all starting to look and function alike
>
> >Well, folks -- newspapers look "alike" too -- even when they are in
> >other languages than English.
>
> Well... German papers don't have a comics page. In fact, no European paper
> does. Nor do they have separate sports section. The New York Times has a
> rather stuffy, old-fashioned look to it, compared to most modern city
> papers.
Hi, Andreas -- I did not say that the content was the same.
I said they look "alike" -- there is a look to a newspaper that
differentiates it from a "tabloid" and a "magazine" (although the
Economist calls itself a newspaper).
And yes, the NYT has a "drier" look that USA Today, for example, but
they both "look like" newspapers.
So I suggest that portal sites will evolve into a "look" that says "hi,
I'm a portal site" without having to use those words.
> All media have to find their best form of expression. In the beginning, new
> media always try to repeat the current successful models. Photography spent
> nearly the first 100 years trying to prove that it could replicate nature as
> well as an oil painting. Radio spent its early career trying to replicate
> the music hall, with radio shows, etc. TV tried to prove that it was radio
> (music shows, etc.) So the web first tried to be a mall, then a TV channel
> (push technology), and now a mail order catalog (web commerce). Eventually
> it'll find its natural form. But we won't take fourty years to do that.
Agreed -- the evolution/adoption curve is steeper now - in the
"developed" world, that is. Remember that all peoples don't have a radio
and TV in every home.
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Kathy E. Gill
http://www.dotparagon.com/aboutgill.html
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Ghandi
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